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Morning all,
Can you help at all? I've been sent a project in P6 which I've imported and taken a baseline so that future versions can be measured. however the dates on that baseline are differnt from the project it was taken from. one has altered by a week and another by a few days. I can't understand why it would do this given it's a snapshot of the project I'm looking at.
Also another quick one why has in some cases the duration changed but not changed? My project shows an activity as 15days, and after baseline and schedule it's still 15days but when I show the Baseline duration variance it's showing a difference of 7.5 days and it's claiming that my baseline duration is 7.5days but neither start or finish date have changed!
Any ideas more than welcome.
thanks in advance,
Thom
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Thomas,
The answer is comming from the settings in "Earned value Calculation Section", Earned Value Tab","Admin prefrences item" in "Admin menu".
there is a setting for earned value there and you can select one of below option:
When calculating earned value from a baseline Use:
1- Budgeted Value with current dates
2-At completion Value with Current dates
3- Budgeted value with planned dates
The P6 default setting is " budgeted value with planned dates" in this case if you assign a project with already has actul as beseline the baseline dates are not correct. So change the settings to one of options 1 or 2, it will be refined.
Regards,
Manochehr
Thomas,
You only think that the baseline dates have changed; you are comparing ‘apples to oranges.’ Check the bar definitions. The Baseline dates are taken from the Planned Column. I imagine that you are looking at the current early dates. While these sometimes match, other times they do not. May I suggest that you read a paper I presented in 2009 called, “Understanding P6 Dates”. You can find it at http://www.ronwinterconsulting.com/published.htm. Good luck!
Thomas,
You might not assigned the Baseline as Project Baseline or User baseline. Use the Assign Baseline Menu.
With regard to Duration, Verify the default calendar to be the same as the assigned calendar in the activities.
Regards,
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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